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Fourty shades of pray: French tourte

May 26, 2013 by Ullrich

Cooking may be fun most of the time – but when you really go for it, it turns into hard labour. That is certainly true for the classic French dish called tourte, a bourgeois marvel of culinary decadence which basically combines two elaborate dishes into one.

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, images, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, French food, recipes

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French Terrine: Ramp up the big guns!

May 24, 2013 by Ullrich

A home-made terrine makes the pride of each amateur chef. A poor man’s feast in former times, it has turned into an almost ceremonial dish nowadays. Here are some basic rules for how to do it at home.

Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, good food, hero butchers, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, recipes

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Everybody says: I love Lasagne

May 23, 2013 by Ullrich

Home-made lasagne is a real treat but a lot of work. If you take the challenge seriously, you’ll have to make the whole thing from scratch, home-made pasta and Bolognese sauce included.

Categories: Dinner, good food, World • Tags: Food, Food photography, recipes

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What is THE French signature dish?

May 1, 2013 by Ullrich

Think Germany and sauerkraut, Korea and kimchi, Japan and sushi, America and hamburgers. Think Spain and paella, Italy and pasta, Russia and borschtsch. But what is THE French signature dish?

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, signature dish, World • Tags: Food, France, recipes, World Food

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Surprise! I’m off to South Korea!

April 28, 2013 by Ullrich

Yes, this is a blog about French food but read the subtitle carefully – I leave the city every now and then and this time it is South Korea. Last week, I’ve spent a working week over there, and foodwise, the best experience was a restaurant in Suwon close to Seoul named “Yeon Po Galbi” which means, if my interpreter wasn’t wrong: “Next to the pond ribs”. I don’t know what that could possibly mean but the food was pond-rib-excellent. Prime meat […]

Categories: Dinner, good food, hero butchers, signature dish, World • Tags: Beef, Cooking, Food, South Korea, World Food

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Daurade: A noble fish and dish

April 21, 2013 by Ullrich

The street markets in Paris will ruin me sooner or later, financially. But this morning, I couldn’t resist to a perfect daurade that I turned into a simple and noble French dish.

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, Paris, poetry, seafood, signature dish • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, recipes, Seafood

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Sowing for summer: Home-grown herbs

April 14, 2013 by Ullrich

Why would you buy expensive bunches of rosemary, thyme, mint or basil at your “gourmet” store or greengrocer’s over and over again – when you can plant them yourself on you window sill? I mean: really?

Categories: chefs, good food, Paris, poetry, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Herbs, Vegetarian

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Get your hands dirty! It’s worth it.

April 13, 2013 by Ullrich

The cured cod adventure continues. Some new ideas about how to treat that picturesque fish.

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, nature, Paris, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, recipes

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Pssst…this is my favorite restaurant in Paris!

April 5, 2013 by Ullrich

Pssst…! I share with you my favorite restaurant in Paris! Really? Yes, I do!

Categories: chefs, Dinner, good food, Lunch, Paris, skills • Tags: Food, Paris, Restaurants

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Cheese University (XXIX): Mothais sur feuille

April 4, 2013 by Ullrich

Let me introduce you to the Mothais sur feuille, a great French goat cheese widely unknown. It hasn’t got its AOC yet but it should only be a matter of time. It’s just too good.

Categories: Cheese University, Dinner, France, good food, nature, skills • Tags: Cheese, Food, France

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Culinary killer: Mussels with a crust

April 1, 2013 by Ullrich

I often think about how privileged France as a culinary country is. The two oceans alone – the Mediterranean to the South, the Atlantic to the West – are an endless source for excellent ingredients. I just prepared some excellent palourdes, hard clams.

Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, seafood • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, French cuisine, recipes

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Real French cooking: Let’s get to work!

March 29, 2013 by Ullrich

I confess that I’ve spent half of Holy Friday cooking. I actually don’t know whether that’s considered a sin by our Christian authorities (I guess so). To defend myself, I would argue that it was all about fish. I even created an original dish of my own!

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Skills, Food, France, recipes, Seafood

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